Download International Trade Agreements and Organizations: A Comprehensive Overview and more Quizzes Political Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 NAFTA DEFINITION 1 NORTH ATLANTIC FREE TRADE AGREEMENT United States Canada Mexico TERM 2 DR-CAFTA DEFINITION 2 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - CENTRAL AMERICA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT United States Costa Rica Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua TERM 3 FTAA DEFINITION 3 FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS Proposed that all of the nations in North and South America (except Cuba) end trade barriers. TERM 4 EU DEFINITION 4 EUROPEAN UNION Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, UK, Greece, Portugal, SPain, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia The United States of Europe!!!! TERM 5 MERCOSUR DEFINITION 5 Mercosur or Mercosul is a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay founded in 1991. New addition: Venezuela!! Associate Members: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. TERM 6 ASEAN DEFINITION 6 ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Burma Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam TERM 7 OECD DEFINITION 7 ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (accepts the principles of Democracy and free markets.) Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Czech Republic, Hungary, South Korea, Poland, Slovakia TERM 8 UN DEFINITION 8 UNITED NATIONS Members include all sovereign states in the world except Vatican City. There are 192 of them. TERM 9 UN Permanent Security Council DEFINITION 9 US, UK, Russia, China, France. The REAL power at the UN. There are also ten elected countries that rotate and serve two year terms on the council. Responds to threats to peace and acts of aggression in other countries (genocide, etc.). TERM 10 NATO DEFINITION 10 NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (a military alliance formed so that the late Soviet Union would not attack.) Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, The US, France, The UK, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada
